Renson Mwakandana Over the last ten years, healthy life expectancy increased in Africa at the greatest rate worldwide. However, the improvements made are seriously threatened by the absence of sustainable funding for health systems. Between 2000 and 2019, Africa saw the largest rise in the number of years a person is in a good condition of health. […]
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Thandisizwe Mgudlwa – Cape Town, SA WITH MORE THAN 100 MILLION FANS ACROSS AFRICA, THE PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOOST THE GAME ACROSS THE CONTINENT The average age in Africa is 19 years and sport, specifically basketball 🏀, is a passion point for more than 100 million fans across the continent. In recent years we have […]
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Renson Mwakandana The Democratic Republic of the Congo has requested that the UN peacekeeping mission’s spokesperson (Monusco) leave the country, signaling a breakdown in ties that has been sparked by protests against the foreign soldiers. Mathias Gillmann, who has represented the mission in its fight against local protesters, is being expelled due to “indelicate and […]
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Renson Mwakandana Two rounds of legislative elections resulted in 111 of the 151 seats in the Congo’s National Assembly going to the Congolese Labor Party (PCT), according to results released on Tuesday by the Minister of Territorial Administration. Observers said that there was a poor voter turnout at the polls. The rate of voter turnout […]
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Thandisizwe Mgudlwa – Cape Town, SA AFRICAN DELEGATES CHART THE WAY FORWARD IN CREATING CLEAN CITIES “SDG indicator 11.6.1 baselining survey and action planning supported by UN-Habitat informed the governments and other stakeholders. This led to new funding mobilisation to various projects to tackle plastic pollution”, said Godfrey Nato, County Executive Committee Member of Mombasa […]
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Renson Mwakandana Health officials said on Monday that Sudan has discovered its first case of monkeypox since the World Health Organization last month designated the illness as a public health emergency of global concern. The West Darfur state of Sudan’s health ministry reported “registering the first confirmed case of monkeypox in a 16-year-old student.” Director […]
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Renson Mwakandana A former deputy leader and spokesperson of Al-Shabab, a Somali insurgent organization, has been nominated as a government minister. The new administration of Somalia has appointed Mukhtar Robow as its minister of religious affairs. After being imprisoned during the administration of the former president for organizing a militant group, he had been under house arrest for four years. He was […]
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Renson Mwakandana The unexpected shutdown of all Kenyan schools begun on Tuesday, according to Kenya’s education minister, in preparation for the nation’s national elections the following week. The half-term vacation was originally slated to start on Friday, but Prof. George Magoha ordered the closure a week early and the start of courses again on August […]
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Renson Mwakandana Police said on Monday that 22 people died and 10 others critically injured as a result of floods over the weekend in the town of Mbale in eastern Uganda. After torrential rains triggered mudslides, two rivers burst their banks, inflicting extensive damage and displacing hundreds of inhabitants. “The death toll from the floods […]
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Renson Mwakandana The Nairobi Expressway has been formally commissioned by President Uhuru Kenyatta. On Saturday, the Expressway was shut down since the trial period had expired. The project is now open for public usage thanks to the commissioning. According to the Moja Expressway Company, which is in charge of managing the route, the road is now usable […]
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